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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

I'm Going To Bed

Wake me up if any of the idiots start rioting, please. (And, for the record "idiot" == "anyone who starts a riot over a damn' Presidential election." Do-over every four years, remember? Sure, any Prez can do a lot of harm, but they only get 8 years max, then some other sad schmuck gets stuck holding the bag.)

I'd like to tellya U. S. Presidents and candidates for the office are Heroes and/or Villains but increasingly, I suspect they're the guys who couldn't come up with a good enough excuse quickly enough when their party came calling. We've puffed the presidency up to a degree that even George Washington would find overblown and the hyperdramatic corn the personalities and pundits peddle on election-night TV is a direct result of it.

Remember, even at its most serious, it's "Chewing gum for your eyes," just like Frank Lloyd Wright said.

4 comments:

At its most serious, whoever winds up with the job has control over the release of nuclear weapons. At its most serious, in this sorry age of limp-weenie Congresses, whoever we elect can seemingly commit the armed forces to battle without even consulting the Legislative branch.

At its most serious, the choice of who has the job is most definitely life-and-death in nature.

<a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnmasonb110872.html>Chewing gum for the eyes.</a>

"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."